What, exactly, does it mean to be happy, and how can such happiness be sustained over the long-term? Can happiness be accurately gauged or measured? How does the paradoxical relationship between happiness and pleasure shape our quest to lead the good life?

Assuming a basic model or map of human nature is needed to navigate the road to the good life, what desires, tendencies, and aversions comprise our core nature? How has our evolutionary history shaped our moral impulses? Are we inherently good, or fundamentally flawed?

What is the relationship between conscious awareness and the unconscious mind? Psychologist and psychoanalyst Efrat Ginot, psychiatrist George Makari and cognitive neuroscientist Heather Berlin join forces to shed light on the latest insights into the fascinating and still emerging science of the unconscious.

Where do our dreams originate from, and what do they tell us? Psychologists and sleep specialists Deirdre Leigh Barrett, Kelly Bulkeley, Rubin Naiman examine dreams from a variety of perspectives, including how they might be interpreted and even directed in some cases.

Writer Siri Hustvedt, psychologist Sonu Shamdasani, and neuropsychologist Mark Solms tackle everything from the varieties of noetic experience and the role of intuition to the phenomenon of peak experience and Jung’s concept of the “collective unconscious.”